Minnesota has a rich history of welcoming refugees to the state, and were among the top 10 across the country to do so ...

You see hope there," Van recalls. Van and her family arrived at a refugee camp in Guam with literally nothing but the clothes on their backs. Eventually, a church in Minnesota agreed to sponsor them.

In March 2002 Cambodia closed both of its provincial refugee camps and began to refuse to accept new Montagnard asylum seekers from Vietnam. At that time, the United States agreed to accept for ...

Fifty years ago, the U.S. withdrew from Saigon, Vietnam. The refugee crisis in its wake was the beginning of Fall River's Cambodian community.